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A Kroger Marketplace is still slated to break ground near Grovetown this year, though the plans no longer include reconfiguring William Few Parkway.

Blanchard and Calhoun Commercial is continuing the “due-diligence” phase of a new retail project at Lewiston Road and William Few that would bring the first Kroger Marketplace to the Augusta area. Located just off Interstate 20, the 114,000-square-foot store would anchor a shopping plaza, with adjacent strip center and outparcels for additional commercial and restaurant use.

A new foundry nearing completion at GIW Industries will prime the Grovetown facility to meet rising global demand in the mining industry.

The 50,000-square-foot white-iron foundry will open in April and become fully operational this summer, said Pamela Aaron, a brand manager for GIW.

Under construction since early 2014, the 72-foot-tall foundry will house new heat treatment and melting furnaces, sand silos and six cranes to accommodate the large-scale slurry pumps produced at the site, according to the GIW Vice President of Operations Thomas Mueller.

Columbia County officials allowed developers of a proposed water park near Grovetown to postpone a rezoning request scheduled to go before the Columbia County Planning Commission amid infrastructure concerns.

Planning Commission members agreed Thursday to table the rezoning until the April 2 meeting. Before the meeting, however, it appeared commission members might recommend against the rezoning based on concerns raised by county staff about the project.

An upscale service hotel will be built near Gander Mountain and CarMax.

Plans for Hyatt Place have been submitted in Columbia County, and construction on the 112-room hotel could begin as soon as early March, said John Engler, the vice president of local development firm McKnight Properties.

The four-story hotel will be built on three acres on Mason McKnight Jr. Parkway behind Sprint Foods, just off Interstate 20, and include a fitness center and outdoor pool. The project should be complete in time for the 2016 Masters Tournament, Engler said.

The 12-acre development at the corner of Baker Place Road and William Few Parkway would consist of retail, professional office space and townhomes woven into a community interconnected by streets and sidewalks, said property owner and local dentist Dr. Andrew Allgood, who purchased the land in June.

Work on creating 20,000 square feet of office and warehouse space just outside Fort Gordon could start by the end of the year.

Anticipating a boom in activity from the U.S. Army Cyber Command headquarters relocating to Fort Gordon, C&N Properties Limited LLC and Budget Commercial properties bought two parcels near Grovetown in March, said Herb Newsome, of C&N Properties.

Both properties, purchased for $580,000, are off Gordon Highway and about a mile from gates 2 and 3 at Fort Gordon, according to Columbia County property records.

Low Country Clothier recently opened just a mile away from its old Mar­tinez location, but owner Marty Baker has already seen his customer base expand.

The apparel store formerly in the Shoppes at Furys Ferry center reopened in a stand-alone building at 426 Furys Ferry Road in late October. Baker and his family purchased the building this summer and spent about four months transforming the space.

Developers are forging ahead on a 35-acre commercial development, anchored by a large-format Kroger supermarket, just off Interstate 20’s Grovetown exit.

To accommodate a proposed 114,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace and several retail or restaurant outparcels, Blanchard and Calhoun Commercial is seeking a commercial rezoning of 10 residential, industrial and commercial parcels off William Few Parkway and Lewiston Road.